Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it’s time to set targets
A study that shows GPs are prescribing about five million too many antibiotic scripts a year means we have to take a radical new approach to reducing use of these drugs.
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Who’s paying for lunch? Here’s exactly how drug companies wine and dine our doctors
Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
Three charts on: Australia’s declining homicide rates
When it comes to homicide rates, the outlook for Australia is positive with continued reduction in the homicide rate. However, challenges remain.
Research shows if you improve the air quality at work, you improve productivity
The quality of the office environment itself can have significant negative effects on thinking, health and productivity.
The Manuka honey fight is one we have to have
New Zealand is currently pushing to certify and protect Manuka honey. Should Australia follow suit with King Island Beef?
Lindt Cafe siege inquest highlights need for police to change their closed-off culture
Policing culture is often associated with a lack of transparency and a resistance to external examination.
How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
Health announcements in the federal budget include a slow lifting of the Medicare rebate freeze, money for new medicines, and an increase in the Medicare levy to fund the NDIS.
Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
The Mabo decision changed Australia's concept of land ownership. It was a divisive yet important step toward recognising Indigenous rights and establishing native title.
The research on hot-desking and activity-based work isn’t so positive
While companies are committing to hot-desking and activity-based work, research is finding negative outcomes for workers.
Co-working is evolving to combine co-living
Co-working spaces are evolving to suits the needs of a changing workforce.
Faking it: we should make manipulating algorithms for political purposes a crime
How do you know your search results or social media feeds aren't being manipulated for political purposes? It's not a crime to do so. But we believe it should be.
Lack of workers with ‘soft skills’ demands a shift in teaching
So-called 'soft skills' – including interpersonal skills, critical thinking and relationship-building – are rated as being important across all jobs and industries.
Police pursuits: when does the end justify the means?
Any policy governing police pursuits must balance the need to apprehend offenders with the safety of the community.
Should we bring back the office in 2017?
Some research suggests the state of your desk may influence your demeanour, but there's more to office politics than that.
Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
Proposals to introduce a national sport lottery system in Australia are not new.
New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
How real is the threat of pornography? And what are the most appropriate responses?
Gable Tostee case: how common is death by falling?
Cases of homicide by falling are rare. But the Gable Tostee case is not the first instance of a fall from a building causing death being linked to criminal conduct.
Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia’s misguided war on bikies
What will Queensland's new laws to combat the bikie 'menace' actually achieve?
China’s G20 summit was big on show, but short on substance
While there was plenty of razzmatazz at the Hangzhou summit, little progress was made on key policy issues.
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Bond University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Bond University
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Professor, Medical Ethics, Bond University
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Director, Centre for Law, Governance and Public Policy, Bond University
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Research Fellow and Honorary Professor, Bond University
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Assistant Professor in Psychology, Bond University
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Senior Research Fellow, Bond University
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Assistant Professor, Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Professor ofJournalism, Bond University